Jonathan Tucker once rescued his neighbors from a Los Angeles home invasion. Apparently, an intruder entered his neighbor’s home, and the Westworld star didn’t hesitate to rush into their home despite knowing the man was potentially dangerous.
During a recent appearance on Dax Shepard’s Mom’s Car podcast, Tucker shared, “Here’s what happened: We live in a really lovely neighborhood. It’s super family-oriented, kids everywhere, doors open. It’s idyllic. We also live in L.A., and there’s some riffraff.”
On the day of the incident, he heard something “concerning” outside. “[My] Spidey senses are going off,” Tucker recalled. Looking out into his neighborhood, he noticed a “very big guy” walk down the street and turn toward somebody’s house.
Jonathan Tucker describes rescuing a mother and her children from the intruder
Tucker explained in the podcast, “I turn to my neighbor, and I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ He’s like, ‘This guy’s really angry.’ And he starts banging on this woman’s door very, very aggressively.”
Once the man left her door, Tucker said he tracked the man to “make sure that this doesn’t happen again.” He said, “We called the police. We gave a description. We made sure the people were safe. I feel like I did my part.”
But when he returned home, the actor heard more noise coming from the other side of the street. When he went outside, he once again saw the man coming down the street. Tucker explained, “Now I’m watching just to make sure everything’s fine. And he’s standing in front of this neighbor’s house across the way.”
He then learned from his neighbors that a woman and her children lived in that house and were currently at home. Noticing that the guy was gone when he looked back at the house, Tucker continued, “He couldn’t have gone anywhere but in the house. I just took off. I’m barefoot.”
“I just sprinted across the street, went through the door, and the mom is holding her baby, and she’s freaking out,” he said. “She doesn’t know who I am, really — I’m just a guy busting into her house. But somebody else has just busted through her house, and he’s three times my size and significantly unhappy.”
He then got the mother and two of her three kids out of the house. He then found her third child, her daughter, recalling she was “a mess.” He said, “I just grabbed her and, like, firemen-ed her out of the house.”
Recalling the entire experience, Tucker said, “It was horrifying. It sounds like such a trope but, like, you’re not even thinking. You’re just like, ‘There’s a kid. I got to save this kid. I got to get this kid out.’”
As reported by TMZ, the intruder tried to flee the scene after the break-in, but the police found him and took him into custody without incident, according to the LAPD. The man was later placed on a 5150 mental health hold at the time.
